Professions & trades
![Page from NRS-5541 Apprenticeship Registers [Industrial Relations], 1924-1970](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2025/03/6931a1d8a15c4aa18814a85379bb65b9.jpg)
Apprentice registers index
Search c.185,500 entries in these registers dating from 1924 to 1970, created by the Department of Industrial Relations and Technology
Nurses index 1926-1954
The index contains 46,000+ entries and records name, hospital trained at, certificate number, date of registration, records number, and remarks. It should be noted this is an index of the register entries only and certificates referenced in these registers have not survived
Crew and passengers 1828-1841
This index may assist those searching for crew of ships arriving in New South Wales between 1828 and 1841
![Government Printing Office 1 - 02086 - Oyster bed [From NSW Government Printer series: Ballina], 1926](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/07/daae115dafd84c36a71fbe135d080e53.jpg)
Oyster culture leases files
The government started to encourage oyster fisheries from 1868 and later introduced oyster leases. This webinar focuses on our series of NRS-1302 Oyster cultures leases files, which tell the stories of the people who held these leases between 1920 and 1978
On This Day
14 Dec 1840 - Government Printer appointed
John Kitchen was appointed as the first government printer in the newly established Government Printing Office
![Government Printing Office d1_13492 - Nurses leaving Blackfriars Depot - [From NSW Government Printer series: Influenza epidemic 1919], 1919](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/07/a530d2ff404847609bef76e96428d12b.jpg)
Nurses guide
General nursing duties in the earliest days of the Colony were undertaken by untrained convicts. This Guide provides an historical background and select list of records relating to nursing in New South Wales
Police service guide
The first police force in the Colony was made up of eight of the best-behaved convicts. This guide provides information for researching police officers in NSW
Railway employees guide
Employment with the Railways covered a large range of positions including driver, cleaner, engineer, draftsman, inspector, timekeeper, porter and ganger
Police service cards
These cards are a rich source of information about police serving in NSW between 1913 and 1986